But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check

Carrie Buck

Republican · U.S. House, Nevada District 1
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How this mark works

We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.

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Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: In March 2025 she sponsored a Nevada Legislature resolution that recognizes the strategic partnership and bond of friendship with Israel and expresses the Legislature's support for it, without saying where she stands on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-09. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.

Buck, a state senator, was a primary sponsor of a 2025 resolution recognizing Nevada’s “strategic partnership and bond of friendship” with Israel, and of the enacted law adding the IHRA antisemitism definition to state discrimination investigations. Her September 2024 posts about Jewish voters drew dual-loyalty-trope accusations.

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Deep Dive

Buck is the Republican nominee in Nevada’s 1st District and a Nevada state senator.

Her legislative record carries her positions. In March 2025 she was one of four primary sponsors of Senate Joint Resolution 11, which "Recognizes the strategic partnership and bond of friendship with, and expresses the Nevada Legislature’s support for, the State of Israel"; the resolution was referred to committee and received no passage vote. She also sponsored Senate Bill 179, which requires the Nevada Equal Rights Commission to consider whether alleged discrimination was motivated by antisemitism using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition; the bipartisan bill was enacted in June 2025.

In September 2024 she posted on X about Jewish voters and the Democratic Party. Per News from the States’ race coverage, she asked "How do any Jewish Americans continue to support the Democrat party?" attached to a repost of Sen. Tom Cotton criticizing Vice President Harris for putting "more pressure on Israel than Hamas"; Democrats characterized the post as "a dangerous antisemitic trope" suggesting dual loyalty. The Nevada Senate Democratic Caucus and the state party leveled the same accusation; the second post, listing Trump’s pro-Israel record and his family, is carried by the state Democratic party’s attack page, a partisan source quoted with that label. Her defenders’ framing was that the posts criticized Democratic policy, not Jewish voters.

No statement on U.S. military aid, aid to Palestinians, or the conduct of the war was located; her candidate questionnaires left the Israel questions unanswered, and her campaign site does not mention Israel.

The money

Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found

2026 support from the five lobbying groups we track
Nothing recorded (as of 2026-07-23) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.

In their words

“How do any Jewish Americans continue to support the Democrat party?”
Source ↗, 2024-09-30

Research log

The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

  • Nothing located at any date; her iVoterGuide questionnaire left U.S.-Israel questions unanswered, and her campaign site carries no Israel material (both checked).

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located at any date.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located beyond the September 2024 posts below.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Action, 2025-03-04] SJR 11, verified in the legislature’s system: primary sponsor (with Sens. Ellison, Krasner, and Stone) of the Israel-support resolution; referred to committee, no passage vote.
  • [Statement, 2024-09] The X posts, as carried by News from the States (news) and the Nevada State Democratic Party (partisan attack page, labelled as such). The original X posts were not independently retrieved.

Safety and antisemitism

  • [Action, 2025] SB 179, verified in the tracker with her in the sponsor list: IHRA working definition added to Nevada Equal Rights Commission investigations; enacted June 2025.
  • [Attributed voices, 2024-09] Democratic organizations’ accusations that her posts invoked dual-loyalty tropes; carried as their characterization, not as a finding.

Race and status context

  • Republican nominee against Rep. Dina Titus, whose card carries its own record.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Dina Titus (Democrat)
  2. – Bobby Khan (Other)
  3. – Steven St John (Other)

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